File Dropper: Hosts your files up to 5 GB for free

Filed under: Utilities, Web services, web 2.0

File Dropper: Hosts your files up to 5 GB for free

by Simon Kerbel Apr 15th 2008

If it turns out that the Internet collapses under the weight of all our uploaded files, we will blame it all on the incredible, and seemingly unstoppable, growth of file upload services like File Dropper.

File Dropper is yet another file upload service that will host your files up to 5 GB. As far as file sharing services go, it couldn't be easier to use:

On the main File Dropper page, you click the upload button, browse to the file you wish to upload, and the file is automatically uploaded to the File Dropper servers. After the upload is complete, you will be taken to a page with a link to send to your friends or co-workers. All they have to do is follow the link and hit the download button, and the file is theirs.

As a free service, File Dropper meets the basic needs of file sharing: upload, share, and download. If you want more enhanced features, such as the ability to protect your files with a password, or the inclusion of a handy file manager, you'll have to pony up the dough, with plans starting at $0.99 a month.

When File Dropper first saw the light of day a few weeks ago, its Achilles heel was quickly discovered: the uploads and downloads were terminally slow. Some time has passed since its initial release, so we figured that we'd test it out again:

Uploading a file was extremely fast: we uploaded a 5 MB file in less than 20 seconds. Download the file, however, was another story: that same 5 MB file took 90 seconds to download, with an average download speed of 60 KB a second.

Ouch.

Here's hoping that File Dropper will drop some more dimes on increasing that speed. If not, it might be another quick web 2.0 style flameout.

Thanks for the tip, Jim!

Tags: file sharing, FileSharing

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

aanidaani said 12:04AM on 4-16-2008

Yet another file host identical to all the other hosts out there...

freddie21_1 said 2:42AM on 4-17-2008

paras las mujeres

TheAssailant6661 said 5:59PM on 4-17-2008

English please.

Jim said 9:49AM on 4-18-2008

Yep. Actually its different from other file hosting servers because:

1) large file sizes
2) Basically two clicks.

nice and simple- if you didn't understand what it said above.

jonas said 4:32AM on 4-26-2008

holy shit.. the server is not working.. puta madre!!! chingadera.

Cannot find "http://www.filedropper.comfile dropper - the simplest file hosting website everbody {background: white;background-image: url(/images/bg.jpg);background-repeat: repeat-x;padding: 0px;margin: 0px;}"

Featured Time Waster

Civiballs is a beautiful, soothing physics puzzle Time Waster

I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.

In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.

To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.

Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.

View more Time Wasters